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Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on people working in the country's film industry to create more fine cinematic works that reflect the spirit of the times and express the people's aspirations.
The first biography in English of China’s president’s father highlights how even reformers bow to state ideology ...
How China’s Xi Jinping flipped the script on the world during his 10 years in power “The world has entered a new period of turbulence and change,” Xi has warned.
He was sent away from Beijing to work in a factory and separated from his family. During Mao’s 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, which began as Xi Jinping entered his teens, militant Red Guards ...
Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned to power.
China's Central Military Commission is its smallest in decades highlighting the personalization of Xi Jinping's control even ...
FRONTLINE examines the rise of Xi Jinping, his vision for China and the global implications.
In his forthcoming book, The Party's Interests Come First, American University professor Joseph Torigian writes about Xi Jinping's father, Xi Zhongxun, a noted Chinese politician himself.
One of Xi’s children, Heping, committed suicide during the Cultural Revolution. Another came to associate with veteran pro-reform officials and intellectuals.
Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America People in China are expressing alarm at what looks like a familiar authoritarian turn in the United States, their longtime role model for democracy.
“Xi Jinping likely doesn’t see himself as rejecting his father’s legacy, nor as following Mao Zedong’s line — at least not the Mao of the Cultural Revolution,” Mr. Torigian told me in ...
Many Chinese citizens see parallels between the turmoil in the United States under the Trump administration and the Cultural Revolution in China. Despite fundamental differences, they draw ...